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The North I Love
Published by Winnipeg: Hyperion, 1984, 1984
ISBN 10: 0920534236ISBN 13: 9780920534236
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Hard bound, first edition, smaller quarto, illustrated throughout, 176pp includes index. Tight and clean. An unmarked copy in excellent condition. 810 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Malaher, Gerald. The north I love. Winnipeg, Canada: Hyperion Press, 1984, 176pp., very good large hardcover with illustrated and printed covers. beautifully INSCRIBED over 6-lines in small script by the author's children to visitors at West Hawk Lake, remembering their father, "a pioneer in wildlife management". Collection of stories and observations about the changing culture and environment of wilderness Manitoba from 1922 to the near present. Author was a mapper, forest-fire fighter, game guardian, protector of wildlife, and friend to Indians. - This book Is a collection of stories about the Canadian North. The stories chronicle the real-life adventures of Gerald Malaher, pioneer conservationist, who following Ernest Thompson Seton. influenced the course of northern wildlife preservation and development in Manitoba in this century. Gerald Malaher fell in love with the North when he went there as a teenage emigrant from England. His first experiences were near The Pas when he worked at the McKay Indian Boarding School. After that he joined a government survey party to map remote regions along the Saskatchewan River. He traveled by canoe over rapids and uncharted waterways, smoked kinnikinik by a camp fire, operated the first binder north of the 53th parallel, fought forest fires with the Indians, established muskrat ranches and registered traplines, tagged barren-ground caribou, and helped restore the beaver population. His life was devoted to the preservation of the natural beauty and bounty of Manitoba's wilderness areas. Gerald Malaher became Manitoba's first Director of Wildlife in the provincial Natural Resources Department. His friends were government officials and Indian trappers and hunters. He served them ail as long as they were lovers of the North. 9780920534236 ISBN 0920534236.
